{"id":52330,"date":"2023-02-03T22:06:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T13:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/03\/singapore-man-sues-woman-for-just-wanting-to-be-friends-not-partners"},"modified":"2023-02-03T22:06:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T13:06:15","slug":"singapore-man-sues-woman-for-just-wanting-to-be-friends-not-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52330","title":{"rendered":"Singapore man sues woman for just wanting to be friends, not partners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Claimant seeks $3m in damages to cover financial losses as well as rehabilitation and therapy to overcome \u2018trauma\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A man in Singapore is seeking more than S$3m (\u00a31.87m) in damages from a woman who said she saw him only as a friend, claiming she caused him trauma and damaged his \u201cstellar reputation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A defamation case being brought by K Kawshigan claims the damages are to cover loss in earnings and investments, as well as \u201crehabilitation and therapy programmes to overcome the sustained trauma,\u201d according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/03\/singapore-man-sues-woman-for-just-wanting-to-be-friends-not-partners\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claimant seeks $3m in damages to cover financial losses as well as rehabilitation and therapy to overcome \u2018trauma\u2019A man in Singapore is seeking more than S$3m (\u00a31.87m) in damages from a woman who said she saw him only as a friend, claiming she caused h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,783,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-singapore","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52331,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52330\/revisions\/52331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}